ANY woman who has ever been mocked for grovelling around in the bottom of an overstuffed sack suspended from her aching shoulder in a vain attempt to find something, can take heart from last week’s ruling in UK a bag-snatch case: that the loss of a woman’s handbag is not a trivial matter, and can lead to stress, anxiety and fear.
The judge emphasised that most women’s bags hold items of importance and value, whose loss could leave them at genuine risk of personal attack or break-in, of theft or misuse of information, or funds.